Rico Mariani

Visual C++ turned 20 this month! It certainly has come a long way. How did it begin? What were the goals way back when? Fortunately for us, one of the original team members VC++ team members, Jan Gray, set up a reunion of former and current employees who worked on the first…

I caught up with the great Rico Mariani, Visual Studio's Chief Software Architect, after his keynote at a VS partner conference held on the Microsoft campus. He tells us all about the improvements in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Rico and team have taken the performance and reliability of…

The great Rico Mariani, software performance guru and Chief Architect of Visual Studio (we dig into what this role is exactly...), sits down with us to discuss what's on tap for the next iteration(s) of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2010) and beyond... If you spend alot of time in VS, then you…

Dear Niners,I will be interviewing the great Rico Mariani this Thursday (November 20, 2008). The base topics of the conversation will be:1) Rico's new role as Chief Architect of Visual Studio2) Digging into the technical roadmap of Visual StudioYou've requested several times that you want more…

Paramesh Vaidyanathan, Principal Product Unit Manager, and Rico Mariani, Architect for the Visual Studio Platform team shares their ideas and long term goals for Visual Studio.You'll hear about the new changes coming to Visual Studio 2010 like the WPF-based editor, the new Visual…

For eighteen years at Microsoft, Rico Mariani’s contagious enthusiasm for technology has inspired countless others to write better and faster code. Most people inside Microsoft know this software architect from his frequent postings on the internal performance tuning alias, and other people  know…

With this second segment of our CLR Team pre-PDC tour we start out with Rico Mariani where we talk again about .NET performance and how to wring the most out of your .NET code.Then we head off to meet a group of architects on the .NET team where they hint at the future of languages.Brad Abrams is…

Rico Mariani, architect on the .NET Common Language Runtime Team, knows a bit about making .NET perform. So, what about .NET? Can it perform? What are the tricks on making your apps run fast? Rico knows and shares his insights.

Here Jason Zander continues his tour through the CLR team's offices. Do you know how hard it is walking backward while trying to aim a camcorder properly? What is that that Kit George is working on (he's a program manager on the BCL team)? Hey, who said working on the CLR team is all work…